The pair is accused of a pattern of predatory behavior in which one partner often acted as a lookout while the other had forcible sex with a victim in their car. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office originally filed more than a dozen felony counts against the two men in 2016, claiming that they forced four women to have sex with them between 2008 and 2011. The women, ages 19 to 34, were informants for drug investigators and had been arrested for drug-related crimes. Some of the women told investigators that they were afraid officers would arrest them if they refused to have sex with them.

Both men were sentenced to 25 years in state prison and will have to register as sex offenders.